Tomorrow is a bittersweet day for me. July 18th is my last official day working at User Interface Engineering. For eight years, I’ve been excited and happy to come to the office every day, continually challenged by my work.
While my job role has evolved significantly over the years, I’ve enjoyed every moment: conducting usability [...]

UIEtips 7/31/07: Common Pitfalls of Social Web Applications, Part II
This week, UIE turns 19 years old. Over the years, we’ve seen technology come and go, features grow and shrink, and interaction styles dramatically change.
What used to be just a person interacting with a screen has become something more — people interacting with other people, [...]

I believe this is the first song that has ever included “The Scent of Information” and “Ruby on Rails” in the lyrics: Eddy Boston’s Internet Wasteland.

At UIE, we do few things like everyone else.
Everyone else puts up a sign saying how they don’t want solicitors to randomly walk into their offices and sell them stuff.
But not us.
We like solicitors. In fact, we tell them so in a sign we’ve put outside our offices:

Here’s what the sign says:

So far, a few [...]

Our own Brian Christiansen had his recent photo of a Saab 96 highlighted on the GM blog.

You can see more of Brian’s pictures on Flickr.

Hi. I’m Brian.
Who am I, and why am I here?
Excellent questions all. I’ll start by telling you that I’m a new UIE employee, joining the company one month ago. But from there, it gets cloudy.
Since I’m filling a new role here at UIE, they’ve asked me to suggest a title for myself. It seems [...]